You may not really care about getting stains on your coffee table, but you still might want to grab a set of coasters so you don’t get yelled at anyhow. These should do the trick, plus they’re cut from the same Horween leather used to make real NFL footballs.

13″ and 16″ tablets designed for creative professionals. They come with a highly accurate new pen with pressure and tilt sensing, and options including Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs, up to 512GB SSD, 3D object scanning camera, NVIDIA Quadro M1000M GPU, and up to 4K resolution.

Rider Fabio Wibmer rode his bike along a railing not much wider than its tires. But that’s not the impressive part – it’s that he did it along the guard rail overlooking Austria’s Kölnbreinsperre – a dam that rises about to a height of about 200 meters (~656 feet).

Superstar chef Rachael Ray is particular about her wings and opted to gulp down spoonfuls of Hot Ones’ arsenal of deadly hot sauces instead. She talked about eating on camera, her catchphrases, newbie-friendly food recipes and more while feeling the burn.

(PG-13: Language) Actress Lupita Nyong’o may have won an Academy Award for 12 Years a Slave, but that doesn’t mean that she can’t do comedy. During a recent episode of Billy on the Street she tested out a bit of standup material on passers by.

Retailer H&M enlisted director Wes Anderson to apply his colorful, fastidious, and bittersweet style to their big holiday advert, which stars Adrien Brody as a train conductor who must break the news to his passengers they won’t make it home in time for Christmas.

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Musician 331Erock cranks out an energetic electric guitar cover version of Ramin Djawadi’s hypnotic opening theme from the hit HBO series Westworld. We can’t get the image of a freshly-printed host being bathed in milky white liquid out of our minds now.

An neat interactive desktop artwork which transforms between a pine cone and a helix structure depending on the direction you spin. There’s also a wooden “executive version” because executives don’t like colors, and like to spend more money.

If you have to wear a tie to a formal event, it might as well be a really cool one. We like these dramatic designs from UK outfit Dapper Jack, which are crafted from carbon fiber woven with kevlar or polyester, then lined with satin for comfort and wearability.

Traffic circles (aka “roundabouts”) aren’t nearly as popular here in the U.S. as they are in the UK and other European cities. WIRED takes a look at the seemingly insane 7-circle Swindon roundabout, and how it manages to keep traffic flowing smoothly.

(PG-13: Language) “While the Watch men walk beyond The Wall, Qhorin falls to Jon to turn his cloak to the Free Folk. So while the Watch are fighting wights and things, Jon’s spooning ginger wilderlings.”Alt Shift X drops wildfire in his recap of HBO’s Game of Thrones.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real-time tactical game in the vein of Commandos. Set in 17th century Japan, you control up to five members to defend the Shogun. Drops 12/7/16 for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Windows demo here.

Lessons from the Screenplay looks at the similarities in the scripts of Whiplash and Black Swan to see how one can tell a story about the obsessed artist – specifically the obsessed performer. Then he points out how their endings diverge to emphasize different points.

Time warp back to 1987 with this corny ABC Afterschool Special. Like all of these, the story has a simple moral: you can’t judge a book by its cover. Stars Doc from The Love Boat, Bug from Uncle Buck, the Governor from Benson, and Mrs. Willis from The Jeffersons.

Sesame Street goes trap with its trippy remix of sounds from everyone’s favorite cookie-addicted muppet and Eclectic Method. If your computer can handle it, try opening this video in four windows, then hitting play on each one. MP3 available here.

New Era Korea’s exclusive collaboration with the International Space Archives adopts designs, colors and patches from American and Russian space programs into down jackets, sweaters, fitted and snapback caps and t-shirts.

(PG-13: Language) Australian comedy duo Theo and Nathan Saidden aka Superwog are known for their bad attitudes and short fuses, so who better to staff a jumbo jet than these two guys with a unique perspective on “customer service?” They’re no better as doctors.

Graphic designer Ji Lee originally conceptualized this tongue-in-cheek clock for a school assignment. The concept became an online hit. Now Lee has figured out how to turn it into a mass produced product.

TaoFledermaus was playing around with some small magnets and decided to see what their movements would look like when captured at 4,000 fps with a prototype Chronos 1.4 camera. The resulting video reveals some of their strange and wonderful behaviors.

We love seeing unusual machines work their magic to produce items we take for granted. Here’s a machine which takes spools of stiff wire, and twists them into the interlocking rows of a chain link fence, while another set of tools twists the loose ends together.

The rubber duckie is a fairly ubiquitous bathroom accessory, but why is it that we have these floating yellow ducks in our bathtubs? Today I Found Out explores the history of these squeaky playthings, and proves that everything sounds more important with a British accent.

Every year, 20-year-olds from the desolate Inland are subjected to rigorous tests. Those who pass gain entry to the promised land known as the Offshore. This Brazilian-produced Netflix series has a low-budget production, but makes up for it with storytelling and acting.

A fascinating work of kinetic art by Piotr Jędrzejewski. This endlessly moving creation uses a pair of gear-driven rotating spheres to constantly keep in off balance and in motion. The sculpture is on display in front of Poland’s Wrocław–Copernicus Airport.